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I was boggled, reading LiveJournal this morning, to see that three of my friends had seen their first lunar eclipse last night.
I sort of assume that people--certainly adults, and certainly science fiction fans--have seen eclipses. I've spent a couple of hours on a Toronto rooftop late at night watching one, and gone out into Inwood Hill Park on a cold winter night for another.
When I was seven, my parents did the pinhole camera thing for us for a partial solar eclipse. I mentioned this to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude who said "Me too. Nine"--same eclipse, same area of the country. A few years back, I was part of the crowd in Bryant Park for another partial solar eclipse, conveniently at standard office lunch time; I wasn't too surprised to be the only person in my department (of seven) who went out for it, but cheerfully borrowed someone's Mylar glasses to look at the sun for a moment (yes, Mom, I know--some risks are worth it) along with doing the pinhole camera thing and looking at the odd shadows. Solar eclipses are trickier: rarer and briefer (I've never seen a full solar eclipse), and at least once I've looked forward to one, and awakened to a cloudy sky that never cleared enough to show us anything.
Along with wondering who else I need to show a lunar eclipse to, I'm wondering if there's something that half of you would be surprised that I've never seen. (Other than a large collection of television programming, that is.)
Lunar eclipses over the next several years are listed here (as well as numerous other places). There will be two total lunar eclipses in 2004, and then none until 2007.
I sort of assume that people--certainly adults, and certainly science fiction fans--have seen eclipses. I've spent a couple of hours on a Toronto rooftop late at night watching one, and gone out into Inwood Hill Park on a cold winter night for another.
When I was seven, my parents did the pinhole camera thing for us for a partial solar eclipse. I mentioned this to
cattitude who said "Me too. Nine"--same eclipse, same area of the country. A few years back, I was part of the crowd in Bryant Park for another partial solar eclipse, conveniently at standard office lunch time; I wasn't too surprised to be the only person in my department (of seven) who went out for it, but cheerfully borrowed someone's Mylar glasses to look at the sun for a moment (yes, Mom, I know--some risks are worth it) along with doing the pinhole camera thing and looking at the odd shadows. Solar eclipses are trickier: rarer and briefer (I've never seen a full solar eclipse), and at least once I've looked forward to one, and awakened to a cloudy sky that never cleared enough to show us anything.Along with wondering who else I need to show a lunar eclipse to, I'm wondering if there's something that half of you would be surprised that I've never seen. (Other than a large collection of television programming, that is.)
Lunar eclipses over the next several years are listed here (as well as numerous other places). There will be two total lunar eclipses in 2004, and then none until 2007.
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I've never seen a full solar eclipse, but would travel to see one. Jane went to the UK to see the on in 99, but it was cloudy where she was. She at least got to see the change in light.